Rubber heel.



PATBNTED DEG. 24, 1907.

v )hy/14cm- F. W. WHITGHBR. RUBBER HEEL.

APPLIOLTION FILED 00T.24. 1906.

' uNrTnDs-TATES PATENT oirion 1 RUBBER HEEL.

`l No. 874,471. y Specification of Letters Patent. Patented 'Dec. 2 4, 19`7. i .Animation mea omhaal, i906. sesamo. 340.250. l

; ,-To may concern: 'A the nails to be ern loyedrin ,f Be it known that I, FRANK W. WHITCHER, heel to the shoe, an are separated fromeach @citizen ofthe United States, residing at Bosother by narrow partitions tapering ,toward ton, county of Suffolk, and Commonwealth the wearing surface of the heel, preferably. to ofv Massachusetts, have invented a certainan edge, so that when one'of :the .secur' new' and useful Ln rovemout in Rubber nails is driven into the heel, if :by chance'=it, VHeels, of which the ollowing is a specilcayshould not register exactly with lonefofthe :tion,'reference being had therein to the ac holes, it would'strike eitherronfthe,-ridgegoffcompanying drawings. the partition or on the sloping side,jand invention relates to 'an' improvement thereby be deliected'so that it will .enter 'one inrubberheels. It isa common thing to oi the holes in the plate'instea'dof beingeither 1 provide rubber vheels with metallic was ers entirely obstructed 'by" thcjplateoipuncturor linetallic plates'embedded thereif-and ino another hole in theffplate.' 4flhe' sloping formed -withi.nail holes, but as commonly, sides of .the perforations-will formy seatsfor-YO.. constructed, there are" also formed holes eX- "the heads of the nails 7,. "With this 4orm 'ofnQa/L 'tending from fthebottom of the rubber heel construction, 'it is n ot necessary. Lto have tof'register with/the holesfin the embedded previously formed holes inthe rubbertgreg- `lrasherQ-ofr plategto insure that the nails shall ister with the holes in the platefbutfthelinail ,I Vpass though-theholes inthe washer. g may be driven in anywher? tl1 e.`portion7l ifThe .obectjoflthe present invention is to covered by the plate, Y twill-be' surefof'f provide' thehe'el withga meshed plate, pref! entering some one of'the'holesintheplatez r'ablyVL fof, inetal-f embedded therein, and so After the nail is driven in, the hole orined'ini 4 Y j-cons'tiuotedithat-whentheheels are attached the rubber will close .upfbehind .the nail, as l 80, through p'ei'forations inthe late without the Inasmuch as the nails'are.usuallyidrivenl f -f necessity of guide A,holes eingI reviously in a row near the` edge' of the -ilieel, thecenter made in therubber to register wit the nail portion 6 of the plate may beflelft4 open. holes inthe platel, i The p ate may be formedin .any we' 'le- .f .The :invention will b`efully understood s ired, either by casting withthellclcs formed 851v V f .-rom the `following description taken in contherein in the casting, ori the plate may be nection- `with the accompanying drawings, struck up with a die to form the perforations and jthelnovel featuresare pointed out and and the .ridgedpartitions. It is referable,

clearly defined inthe claims at the close of however, that the plate should be integral inthe specification. stead of being woven from wire orstrips. By 90 1Q-In .the drawinfrs, Figure 1 is a plan of making it inte ral, if by chance one-of the Aoneot the meshed plates detached. Fig. 2 is vpartitions shoudbe broken bya nail or othera section on line. 2-2 of Fig. 1, enlarged. wise,`the other partitions will still serve to Fig. 3=isasection on line 3-3 of Fig. 1, enbrace the plate on the sides' of the meshes. larged. Fig. 4 is a perspective of a heel, the If formed by 'striking up from a plate, the 95 plate being wholly hidden by the rubber. partitions will be V-shaped. It will be ob- 5 is a horizontal section, showing the served that in this form ,of construction, the plate in the heel. Fig. 6 is avertical section corners at the junctionof the holes all have showing the-heel with nails driven through downwardly sloping sides. the Vperlorations in the plate into the leather If the partitions arevery narrow, the sides 100 heel. Fig. 7 'is a'planbf -a plate showing the Leed not be made slop "Q holes disposed'in a somewhat different order v In the-form-of lateusown in Figs. 1 and from that shown in Fig. 1; -5, it'will .bexn'o'te that the perforations are Y vReferrinor to the drawings-1 representsv all disposed in straight'lines, and the partithe rubberllieel, and 2 represents the meshed tions are also.' in straightlines, so that'where 105 late which is embedded in the heel, the plate the' edge -of the plate curved, it in some being molded or vulcanized therein. The placescutsffacrossj Athe holeslbut the-holes 1plate--2 is meshed or provided with numerous thusoutfacross'would be outside ofthe line -V perforations 3 for the passage of the shanksf g f th` ailsjgand'wherer lthusfcut across the of the 4nails 7which are .used for attaching r l 'l l the heel to the shoe. These perforations-aife ;.close.t ogether, being 'more numerous'thar.

1.10 .fiaiQn inf-Fig. 7, the

lines parallellwithsthe con?y tour ofthe plate, therefore follo a curved line and some of the artitions W l also be curved. With this orm of construction, there are no broken holes along the margin, but there is a selvage 8 entirely around the plate and this selvage is V-shaped or has slo ing Walls.

hat I claim is:

1. A rubber heel provided with a meshed plate embedded therein, said late being integral in itself and formed with a large number of holes in close proximity to one another more than the number of nails to be used in attaching the heel to the shoe, the intermediate portion of the plate between the perforations being constructed to form partitions between the holes on all sides thereof With slop' g sides and 'narrow edges, whereby nails driven into the heel at any point against the mesh plate will be deflected intoone of 20 FRANK W. WHITCHER.

Witnesses:

WILLIAMl A. MAoLEoD, ALICE H. MORRISON. 

